During the Kenya Emergency, photography became a vital tool for psychological warfare. Lauren Brown explores how the colonial state used violent images to demonise African insurgents.
Why was a twentieth-century doctor deeply involved in the radical birth control movement so interested in an eighteenth-century reproductive scandal? Haohao Zhang explores.
This collaborative conversation, facilitated by Kate Dossett and Simon Popple, reflects on the role of emotions in archives and what institutions can do to support wellbeing in engaged research.
Today's 'sleepmaxxers' are part of a long and rich historical tradition dating back hundreds of years. Sasha Handley and Holly Fletcher discuss the importance of sleeping well in early modern England.
What can we learn about queer lives and queer history from the call logs of the UK's first LGBTQ+ helpline? Tash Walker and Adam Zmith on their award-winning podcast The Log Books.
How did a group of authors, artists musicians and aristocrats in Edwardian Chelsea use the structures of marriage, class and empire to subvert the heterosexual norm and form a network of queer non-monogamy?
How can we end ageism? By understanding how the Victorians invented it. Helen Kingstone examines the work of nineteenth-century Scottish novelist Margaret Oliphant.
Marybeth Hamilton, Elly Robson, Mary Katherine Newman, Marral Shamshiri, Beckie Rutherford & Vivien Chan
In the final article of this series, our editorial team discuss their findings from an afternoon spent collectively exploring the History Workshop archive.
How did radical women navigate Bengal's 'age of fire'? Oyeshi Ganguly explores what oral history can tell us about the female revolutionaries who took up arms against British rule.
How can we use oral history to capture the diverse history of the UK environmental movement? Barbara Brayshay and Saskia Papadakis introduce the OHEM archive.
The idea of making amends for slavery has a long genealogy in Britain. Catherine Hall examines this history alongside vital questions of race and repair for our present moment.
In the eighteenth century, landlords in the Scottish Highlands began to exert greater control over what their tenants planted and how they planted it. Cat Scothorne shows how these 'reforms' disrupted resilient ecological practices.
Throughout modern history, overseas students have neither been entirely rejected nor genuinely accepted. Nilakshi Das examines this discourse as it shifted over time.
Hannah Skoda shows the historically persistent connection between abuse of animals and abuse of intimate partners. Through the ages, abusers have often expressed nostalgia for the 'good old days' of severe patriarchy.
Solitude remains one of the most puzzling eternals of the human condition. Barbara Taylor discusses what the 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe reveals about its many forms.
Vivien Chan, Beckie Rutherford, Sally Alexander & Jeffrey Weeks
How did History Workshop Journal's editorial collective sustain its commitment to radical history over fifty tumultuous years? Sally Alexander and Jeffrey Weeks discuss.
Ten illustration students from Nottingham Trent University consider their personal connections to the past and what it means to practice history from below.
Three of our past and present editors reflect on the ways in which History Workshop Journal has influenced and inspired their practice during their time on the History Workshop collective.
